skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love it when used in its niche (for me):

- Walking around a building, working on the network.

- Those occasions where I "might need a computer" but don't want to lug around a bag. Traveling for pleasure, while on-call at work, etc. Thing fits in my jacket pocket.

- Working on my car (plugging into the OBD port, tuning, etc).

- Gaming/video while traveling. Its single-channel memory severely limits what you can play (unlike GPD's gaming line), but I'm into oldschool and indie games so it's fine. I could use my phone but I like PC games and software better.

Also it's weird and I like weird things :)

I wouldn't recommend it as a primary workstation unless your situation really calls for it. I've used it with a USB-C docking station as a primary machine while I was between homes. It worked fine, bit slow. Went back to my Zen2 beast as soon as possible.

It charges and runs off of a normal USB-C power bank, which gives me ridiculous runtime for cheap. My "minimal" travel kit has the GPD, my phone, and one charger between the two. Crazy capability in a jacket pocket.

Things I don't like about it:

- Whiny fan. Not sure what could be done, it's so tiny... you can turn it off with a handy switch above the keyboard, but I don't really like doing that.

- Single channel memory. Severely cripples the GPU. GPD's gaming machines don't have this issue.

- No video output over USB-C, you have to use the full-size HDMI.

- Display is wired sideways. Linux/GRUB doesn't auto detect this; Windows does.

- Wish it had a nub mouse. Would free up space for a more normal KB layout.

Edit: formatting
Hey! Rebuilt this from the ground up with a custom neural network (trained on my own corpus of a couple hundred thousand articles) to do the filtering.

Enjoy!
99% of the Ubers/lyfts I've been in are trips to the airport - and most of those cars had worn out suspension, bald tires, or raw wheel bearings. Some even to the point where I wasn't sure the vehicle was going to get me where I was going. It doesn't help that in the midwest the roads are 3rd world quality.

The business model is flawed and I would rather use a company that maintains a vehicle fleet where a mechanic is involved and knows if a vehicle should not be on the road.
My uncle used to work at Compaq (back before they got bought by HP). When their computers broke, his team had to pay their support staff to get them fixed. (Via internal budgeting). But the support team knew internal customers would call them anyway and it was still compaq’s money, so they charged several times more for internal support calls than normal support calls.

My uncle’s team was having none of that, so they paid an external computer repair service to fix their computers. The external repair service subcontracted to compaq’s internal people anyway, so when their computers broke they called up (and paid) external consultants. Who in turn called compaq’s internal support team, who came downstairs and fixed their computers at a competitive price.
You're confusing DoH in "friendly" browsers like Firefox, where you and I might deliberately turn it on to thwart ISP shenanigans. In that case, it's good that DoH is hard to filter and looks like all other TLS traffic.

But the parent is correctly describing DoH as a double-edged sword. The same properties that make it good for you and me when trying to safely access domain data make it a weapon for rogue IoT devices who want to do the same.

Your smart fridge could easily include software that allows it to acquire its own secure DNS info from a DoH network run by the smart fridge manufacturer. This would allow them to find the domains behind the chumbox ads that they want to show you in spite of your PiHole. Since the manufacturer would be doing this to get around a user's desired network configuration, it'll be configurable for them, not for you. You will not be the "owner" of this device.
SARS1 was also a coronavirus, and it had more than 50% mortality for those infected. The virus strain tells you nothing about its mortality.

SARS-CoV-2 is also only ~3x as deadly as the flu WITH UNPRECEDENTED MEASURES TO CONTAIN IT. In areas where it wasn't contain, such as the initial outbreak in Italy that overwhelmed hospitals, it was 10x or more as deadly as the flu.
Even humans with full general intelligence and domain knowledge will fail at profanity detection. I think the problem here is not so much that there are false triggers, but that there is no way to deal with the false triggers — no way to appeal to reason or utility.
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> you can write a program by “returning” into other bits of the program or its libraries.

Phrack has you covered, eg: from 2001:

The advanced return-into-lib(c) exploits:
PaX case study by Nergal <nergal@owl.openwall.com>

http://phrack.org/issues/58/4.html#article

Think I actually looked at this and an (at the time) recent 0day for opensshd that was found and written up by a couple of Finnish students - as a motivational presentation for PaX and/or grsecurity while at university.
A large machine learning job spans many nodes and runs most efficiently when it has access to all of the hardware resources on each node ... So for many of our workloads, a single pod occupies the entire node

Hm, why not just use the underlying nodes then, without Kubernetes?

Is the underlying cloud that bad at scheduling, and are they keeping the VMs warm all the time?

What are they gaining for this indirection? Is it to get a common interface across GCP and other clouds?

Bin-packing or fragmentation is not a common problem

there’s relatively low strain on the scheduler.

That said, strain on the kube-scheduler is spiky
I remember seeing video screens above the urinals in a parking garage in Maastricht, Netherlands some time between 2004 and 2006. They primarily showed ads, but also had a camera pointed at you, so you'd be watching an ad and then it would switch to showing your face. The camera also tilted and would begin tilting down. It would get your heart racing, but it only tilted down a few degrees before it tilted back up so it never showed your dangley bits.
I am curious what is the use-case for such computers. I was a heavy PDA user in older days, but now between very powerful smartphones and very slim laptops I could not come up with any scenarios where I would use a PDA like that.
No. Truth does not flow from consensus like a college degree follows from literacy.
Please don't take HN threads into partisan flamewar. Nothing good can come of this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> I expect to be told ...

Which is exactly what Google does. At $dayjob we get warnings from Google all the time about users misbehaving.

Remember you are hearing one side of the story here. Innocent people and the people worthy of banning for legitimate reasons will both proclaim innocence until the end of days.
Google and Apple have kept a stranglehold on the mobile application distribution market for over a decade now. It's time to break them up, or require them to allow other mobile app distributors on their platforms.

Surely other companies can be more efficient with the 30% cut or less that Google takes, without forcing users to put up with the poor service that's exemplified by the article in the OP.
It doesn't seem true to me, as well as that rape scenes are common in U.S.A. fiction. They seem to be avoided, whereas all other crimes are liberally shown.

It seems to be a subject that often makes the U.S.A.-man extremely uncomfortable, especially when it pertains children, whereas other crimes such as child murder are seemingly discussed and shown with little issue.
To be fair, this is the same way all broadcast media has been since the Gutenberg Press was primarily used to print indulgences for the church. We got a good 25 years between the time the internet was relatively widespread before it was completely subverted by the powers that be, that’s pretty good. Now onward to the next communication technology, because the internet is now only useful for maintaining the status quo, just like TV, radio, newspaper, and every broadcast medium prior.
Some people realize that companies can pay their workers enough and not overcharge by reducing their profits, but they don't want to do that.
That’s a pithy retort devoid of content. If 60% of the population believes the truth (for the sake of argument) and 40% believes another, the 40% can still do quite a bit of damage by intentionally spreading misinformation (causing confusion and chaos that the 60% have to distract themselves from) and/or violence (government overthrow doesn’t have to come from the majority).

Similarly, it’s not hard to imagine that if the minority is the one that’s correct, the majority can cause some damage enforcing the belief that the emperor is indeed wearing clothes.

The truth is the thing that needs protection, not speech. The challenge is that objective truth can be epistemologically difficult to protect without protecting lies (or conversely fighting falsehoods can inadvertently end up fighting some truths).
Isn't there some speculation about Chumash dugout making techniques too around Santa Barbara?
I agree that it was a dog whistle, less sure about the “just regular guys” part of Uber and Lyft. One of the reasons I used the services when they came out was that my driver was likely to be a local who generally knew where things were, but I wouldn’t have to suffer the abuse of regular taxis (try going to Oakland or the sunset at night).

As the demographics changed most drivers are more often than not immigrants coming from as far away as Tracy and Sacramento with less local knowledge and potentially a bit of a language barrier, and they’ll often refuse rides just like the pre ride share taxis. I don’t care at all about the national origin of my driver, but it does get frustrating having a driver with little sense of where they’re going and a limited ability to communicate the best route. Taxis at least tended to know their way around if they didn’t refuse to drive me.
This is a great point. What is "found"? Like the point is "I don't want 3rd party websites to be AT ALL AWARE that I visited another site". How can you find an alternative? I don't want an alternative, I want it gone.

If google does this, and other browsers don't, it would mean that just using another browser like Firefox will effectively hide you. Hoping for that.
> Google and Facebook destroy competitors.

I agree that they both hold onto their monopolies. But I don't think it's because they "destroy competition". Take Bing for example: it is quite alive. Google just delivers better search results. Yes the results have been deteriorating, but every time I get frustrated with them and try Bing as standard search engine, I switch back after a week. I don't like the google monopoly, but their core product is still not being challenging by anything I know of.
You are reading way too much into that incident.

At the time, "Engineer put in feature not asked for."

Later, "Upon full examination, engineer put description of feature in piece of paper shoved in front of busy manager, and told selected co-workers what he had done." (None of whom, when the shit hit the fan, should be expected to stick their necks out.)

Neither version suggests that the feature was something reflective of corporate policy, or would have had support from higher ups if they knew about it. Also, said engineer turns out to be a very good programmer. Which explains the company's decision to try to keep him and correct his behavior rather than immediately firing him.
Scavengers Studio creative director accused of belittling, screaming at, groping
Twitter Birdwatch Guide on GitHub
How do you break them up when they control the device hardware?
As a devops person myself, I am super skeptical that there is any good reason to do a chatops deploy. My guess is "new toys are cool" / "Want this on my resume"

To be clear, it's hopefully just some connector that does slack message -> triggers jenkins job.

But from a security, compliance, reliability, debuggability, auditability perspective I think it's inferior. Not to mention an inferior interface.
Mate and XFCE are enough.
Piston engines (running leaded high-octane fuel) in general are common in small aircraft. Radials do exist, but most, I think, are inline engines (usually opposed).
Every other country in the world gives this status to the EU ambassador. Even Donald Trump managed to figure that one out. Beyond petty.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/world/europe/us-eu-status...

In a Change of Tone, U.S. Restores E.U.’s Diplomatic Status
Don't you need at least some tracking to avoid fraudulent clicks?

I'm as pro-privacy as they come, but until someone comes with the incentive or dedication to build an alternate payment ecosystem out of nowhere, ads are what the web is built on.
Ask HN: Best SaaS to offload all the user management part out of the product?
We are looking for a Saas product that could offload all the user management part out of the core product, i.e. a tool that handle loads of tedious things related to user management, like: sign up, authentication, password recovery, billing status and subscription, front-facing self-serve for user account and download invoices page, etc.
Any recommandations ?
All of the things so far cited as ways Boeing has been obfuscating the MAX name have been things that Boeing has not actually done. On the contrary many airlines are being clear what they are doing to bring back their MAX aircraft, and not trying to hide it.

The -7 -8 and -9 designations have been used since the beginning. The -8200 is a special high capacity -8 with extra exits for a really high density 200 passenger layout that RyanAir wanted. The MAX name is a generational marketing name like how the -700, -800 and -900 got named "Next Generation" and the previous generation named "Classic" at that time.

Renaming it is not going to work and would not inspire confidence, and Boeing knows that.
This is an emergency situation. I don't know if we can count on individual companies to just do the right thing. They might be risk-averse, afraid of financial losses, but we need them to go full-steam ahead. Pfizer and Moderna should definitely be financially compensated for everything they produce. We could pay them above cost and basically guarantee their financial success in this operation.

It's possible that the current generation of vaccines could end up being outdated, and there could be some amount of waste, but the important thing is the production rate. When an updated vaccine becomes available, we want to be able to produce it and distribute it as fast as possible.

On another note, there's also research into oral vaccines. IMO that would be amazing if it could pan out. Imagine if we could just mail people capsules containing booster doses updated for the latest strain every month. We'd crush any pandemic in no time.
The plane needs most power on takeoff. This partly mitigates the fact that batteries weight the same on takeoff and landing.

You could probably use altitude to recover part of the energy expended by using the propeller to regenerate energy (like in braking), especially useful for emergency power.
This was actually a genius system on Valve's part. I think what makes these two systems different are a few things:

-Overwatch at least had some method of selecting people that "knew about the game." People that had never ranked competitively in CSGO couldn't make decisions if someone was cheating, whereas it seems that the hopes for this new Twitter feature will be that anyone can "fact-check" a tweet. Even if evidence is required, it is beyond easy to find secondary sources that skew facts or statistics into a different connotation.

-Whether or not someone is cheating is pretty binary. They either are or they aren't. One of my biggest concerns for Birdwatch is that it was likely be used on tweets that aren't binary statements of "write/wrong" facts, and will likely be used in mass-reports of those of other political stances. That, or shitposting
Arbitrary rules like that are a way to teach children impulse control, restraint, and patience.

I can't easily find the exact passage, but The Better Angels of Our Natue talks about how it's improper in English culture to use a knife to help eat peas. He credits these kind of arbitrary rules for helping reduce violent impulses. (Note: I read the book a while back so I'm probably misrepresenting the author's point in some way, but I think that's the general idea.)
Disguised ad. This guy is a social media "influencer".
I think the other important use case is that sats without a ground station in view can backhaul traffic to another set of sats (for cruise ships or remote islands).
Thank you so much for your reply and interest. There are libraries that allows you to put in hold for up to 50 books depending on the availability of books. There are two types of orders. One is just a pick up from library and other is pick/drop. Yes, our customer need to let us know the quantities of books being returned to library.

I have 4 kids under the age of six. So we pretty much put alot of books on hold every week. Utilizing our tax money!

We are currently working on reducing the price to make it more affordable for everyone.
It's a bit disappointing to still see overflows around, but at least blindly smashing the stack is no longer usually exploitable for modern systems with basic security.
They removed the "don't be evil" motto.
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

"Please don't fulminate."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They mutate, and mutations more successful in causing infections cause more infections and become dominant.

There are many ways for this to happen, some of which covered in this thread - changes in the surface presented to the host, more viral load produced and expelled by an infected host earlier being some obvious ones.

Some potential methods that have occurred with other diseases in the past include additional methods of infecting hosts (from prior versions), such as viral envelopes that can insert against additional types of cells, or changes to the way the virus hijacks cell replication machinery to produce products that are better at hiding what is going on to the immune system.
> Some even to the point where I wasn't sure the vehicle was going to get me where I was going. It doesn't help that in the midwest the roads are 3rd world quality.

I suspect you haven't taken an Auto/Tuk-tuk in Delhi/Mumbai/Bangkok. I've never experienced the same kind of fear with a driver-for-hire in North America.
It's making a mountain out of a molehill. Yes, there's some evidence that very rigorous, regular eye exercises can help delay or even slightly reverse myopia. Slightly. If you give yourself a headache for like an hour a day, every day. And the effect goes away when you stop exercising.

This is something that has been studied pretty extensively. If it was actually a cure, it'd have been well-proven by now, and we'd all be doing it.

You really should exercise your eyes once in a while if you're staring at a screen all day, though.
So if you jaywalk and a bus goes off a cliff, you should automatically get multiple life sentences? If you drive drunk and no one gets hurt should you not face any charges? What if you attempt to shoot someone and miss?

We have control over our decisions but not the consequences of our decisions. Punishments should fit the crime, which is fundamentally different from the result. Choosing to drive drunk is the same mistake whether it hurts no one or hurts many.
Disagree completely.

This is war. Governments fight wars. It's one of the primary roles of government. In WW2 all sorts of prioritization and direction came from government. This should be the same.
More charitably, charge carriers do move much more slowly than the electric field they transmit[0], and while you’re correct that the time-varying electric field in a processor is not light (nor even a radio wave), if the chips were much larger or much higher frequency the chips and buses would risk becoming antennas and having all the problems that would bring — 5 Ghz ~= 6cm wavelength [1] ~= 3cm half-wave dipole.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=c%2F5ghz

Edit: if the chips were much larger. Smaller chips can go faster without becoming antennae.
Quite a lot simpler to seperate the mixed signals using a modern multi-electrode array.
So, the masters of machine learning, where most of.human work is automates, who employ the finest brains in the CS world use... a stop words list to flag an app as indecent? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm really surprised.
> What is the reason behind us not having deployed massive amounts of search indices into the world that were built using this method?

There are a lot of other strategies for segmented data indexes. Many of which are roughly equivalent to this in practice. For example, using a computed strategy for distributing data among various nodes on a server. In such a situation, a master node can run a computation on an indexed value to identify the node(s) in the cluster which contain the data and send a query request to only the nodes containing that information.

I would think the biggest drawback to this particular strategy is, often times, you need to analyze the data in the index to get an answer anyway. So it's not really beneficial to throw away the index data. For example, if the indexed field is a timestamp, and the result set is often sorted on that field, then it makes total sense to keep the index values and use that to perform sorting while a separate thread fetches the data needed to flesh out the query.
Tesla has been regressing with so many easy-to-fix bugs like Spotify playlists being cut off at 100 songs (broken for two months now). I don't ever see myself trusting their FSD when their developer and QA teams are causing or missing so many obvious regressions.
On a single engine plane. The engine costs are MASSIVE. For planes like those a rebuild costs $50k, and the time between rebuilds is 1200 hrs.

That doesn't include the amount of maintenance that goes into it between rebuilds either. I would imagine that $10-$20/hr would be a reasonable estimate for those engines
There may be some ground stations owned by WISPs or whatever servicing a whole community, but I think the theory is that a lot will be small end user terminals providing connectivity to just a household or two in a remote location. If these are your users, then yeah, it could very well be advantageous to have and orbital CDN if millions of them are all streaming the same new Cobra Kai episode at the same time or whatever.
I kind of like Chapter Three: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25482/25482-h/25482-h.htm#CHA...

"There is a common saying in the services, and elsewhere, that greater privileges grow out of larger responsibilities, and that the latter justifies the former. This is part truth and part fable."

Actually, this book looks pretty good generally.
Wikipedia works because you can remove content (even remove accounts afaik) once you're sure it's providing wrong information. On Twitter, people will interpret this as censoring.
Is it worth optimising your Lambda functions?
Big sites might support it, sure, but have you visited the wider web recently?
Aren't most antibodies at this point a result of infection?